[Lazarus] New menu designer

[Howard Page-Clark]

On 26/12/2015 23:27, Juha Manninen wrote:
> Howard, as the author you also have voting power over the GUI.
> Besides GUI design is difficult, there is never a "right" solution
> that everybody would agree upon.
Yes, dictatorship is far more efficient than democracy.

> Yet I feel some things should be changed. All settings that duplicate
> OI properties should either be moved to a bottom section of a popup
> menu, or they should be removed completely.
> Then the remaing GroupIndex feature from "Checkmark and radioitem
> properties" dialog could be moved to the main window of menu designer
> and the dialog then removed completely.
OK, I will work on a suitable patch that addresses these and the other 
issues that e.g. Péter and Maxim raised.
>
> There are other usability issues, too.
Namely...?

>>From Kostas:
>> Since the menu editor is redesigned, why not do it like in Windows Forms
>> and NetBeans with the "inline editor" which is part of the form editor?
>
> Good idea but how to implement it? It may not be a trivial task. We
> can plan a future third iteration of menu designer to be an "inline
> editor".
I'm not familiar either with Windows Forms or Netbeans. I'll do some 
research on this idea next year.

Howard


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